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Health-RI is in the process of defining a metadata scheme for onboarding in the Health-RI metadata portal. To allow for onboarding of a dataset, the minimal metadata set must be provided. It is therefore essential that you assess whether this minimal set is collected/available or whether additional metadata needs to be collected.
Beneficial for You and Your team: Having comprehensive and detailed metadata ensures that anyone, including yourself, can understand and work on the data effectively even when some time as passed since collection.
Improves the quality of your data: Good metadata should describe the data accurately and unambiguously, which in turn improves the overall quality of the data.
Helps with data discovery: Complete metadata improves the ability for you and your team to locate and retrieve data quickly. Additionally, if this metadata is published, it can more easily lead to collaborations with others.
Promotes good data management practices: ??
How to
step 1: where is metadata from your research already being collected (ensure it’s still up to date and represents still your project accurately)
step 2: Do you think your metadata is still enough for others to understand? Create competence questions to this metadata. Guide yourself with specific questions (think about it).
Step 3: Answer all those competence questions
Step 4: Store the metadata in an appropriate location where it can be useful for you and other people on your team - ask your data stewards which location this is.
In the RUMC researchers can put documentation about their project in the RDR under a Research documentation collection - this is not meant to share with the public!
Step 5: What else can you do from here, link to following pages
Publish it in a data catalogue - if you want others to find the dataset?
If you want to start a metadata schema because or reuse one - step
Expand?create a sunflower - if you want to work with HRI to create a petal
[FAIRopoly] → Doesn’t really sound like “assess” though?
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be split into easy to follow steps;
Step 1
Step 2
etc.
help the reader to complete the step;
aspire to be readable for everyone, but, depending on the topic, may require specialised knowledge;
be a general, widely applicable approach;
if possible / applicable, add (links to) the solution necessary for onboarding in the Health-RI National Catalogue;
aim to be practical and simple, while keeping in mind: if I would come to this page looking for a solution to this problem, would this How-to actually help me solve this problem;
contain references to solutions such as those provided by FAIR Cookbook, RMDkit, Turing way and FAIR Sharing;
contain
custom recipes/best-practices written by/together with experts from the field if necessary.
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